Quotes About Learning

The human mind adjusts itself to a certain point of view, and those who have regarded nature from one angle, during a portion of their life, can adopt new ideas only with difficulty.

There is no more powerful skill for success in any field than knowing how to ask the right questions.

There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesnt understand.

It is a fact that, being a quick reader, apart from enabling a person to study good books such as Macaulay and Gibbon, enables a person to read a lot of bad books as well.

Epictetus, for instance, challenged the idea that we improve solely by reading books and acquiring knowledge. Instead, we should demonstrate that the knowledge has really sunk in: 'A builder does not come and say, "Listen to me talking on the art of building", … but undertakes to build a house and proves by building it that he knows the art.

Taking our knowledge to heart and really living it, however, can be difficult, as Seneca illustrated with a literally colourful analogy: 'Just as some dyes are readily absorbed by the wool, others only after repeated soaking and simmering, so there are some studies that show up well in our minds as soon as we have learned them; this one, though, must permeate us thoroughly. It must soak in, giving not just a tinge of color but a real deep dye, or it cannot deliver on any of its promises.

Bchook", machte das Huhn. "Sprich ordentlich!", schimpfte Arend und gab ihm einen leichten Klaps. […] "Bchok", bemerkte [das Huhn] dort, warf Arend einen beleidigten Blick zu und verbarg den Kop in [Neeles] Hals. "Es hat Arabisch gelernt", stellte sie verblüfft fest und streichelte seinen weißen Federflaum.

Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

A Talmudic maxim instructs with respect to the Scripture: "Turn it over, and turn it over, for all is therein.

I used to be scared of women. When I was very young they terrified me, but discovering the female universe was incredible and still is to this day, as you never stop learning about them.

Experience can only be achieved from mistakes, mistakes can only be achieved from stupidity, and stupidity can only be achieved from experience.

El mayor disparate de nuestros ancestros fue imaginar que las cosas fundamentales surgen por decreto creador (divino o gubernativo) y se extinguen por decreto derogatorio (divino o gubernativo), cuando en realidad brotan de un impersonal espíritu humano obligado sin pausa a aprender de sus equivocaciones, dentro de procesos aleatorios que constituyen la historia de su propia libertad.

El que busca lo conocido no busca el conocimiento.

Quien busque lo conocido no busca el conocimiento.

History teaches, but has no pupils.

Una tarde parda y fría de invierno. Los colegiales estudian. Monotonía de la lluvia en los cristales.

Me sumerjo en un libro y durante dos o tres días no leo nada más y no lo dejo hasta que no lo he terminado. Soy consciente de estar dándome a mí mismo una educación.

because her sharp intelligence allowed her to understand the extent of what she hadn't learned.

You can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And, nonetheless, they have become your closest friends, your wisest advisors, the wizards that hypnotize you, the lovers you have always dreamed of.

The condemnation of an error is another error.

somatic markers depend on learning within a system that can connect certain categories of entity or event with the enactment of a body state, pleasant or unpleasant. Incidentally